Colors to ring in the New Year with The Sansui Colors Stardust Awards
The Sansui Colors Stardust Awards is back with its 13th edition to honour exceptional performances of the Indian film industry for the year 2015, across 33 categories. The show will take place on December 21in Mumbai
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | December 15, 2015
The #SansuiColorsStardust Awards is set to take place on December 21 in Mumbai at the Reliance Jio Gardens, BKC. The Awards are back with the 13th edition with a promise to set a new benchmark for celebration of cinematic talent. The awards ceremony will honour the best performances of the Indian film industry for the year 2015, across 33 categories. The award function will be televised on Colors in the New Year.
With an incredible line-up of performances by actors and a galaxy of stars ready to walk the Red Carpet, the awards night promises to be memorable. Bollywood personalities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kajol, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Hrithik Roshan, Sonam Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Akhtar, Saif Ali Khan, Irrfan Khan, Akshay Kumar, Bipasha Basu, Shilpa Shetty, Jacqueline Fernandes, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur, Kalki Koechlin, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Siddharth Malhotra, Shilpa Shetty, Sridevi Boney Kapoor, Sunny Leone, Tiger Shroff, Sonali Bendre along with other luminaries, veterans and talented technicians will join hands to make this event an evening to remember. Given their expertise in putting together large scale shows, Cineyug has been roped in as the Events Partner for this gala affair and the sets have been designed by Omung Kumar.
Known for their outstanding humour quotient, the evening will be hosted by Abhishek Bachchan and Riteish Deshmukh along with co-host Farah Khan.
Commenting on this year's awards Raj Nayak, CEO, Colors, said, “Last year we partnered with the biggest names in the Consumer Electronics and Publishing Business i.e. Sansui and Stardust to launch The Sansui Colors Stardust Awards. This partnership of three leaders went on to make the Sansui Colors Awards the No. 1 awards show on Indian Television. This year, based on feedback from all stakeholders in the Industry we have re-looked at the categories to make it more credible and robust. Our aim is to make the event exceedingly significant, entertaining and colossal this year.”
Recognized as the year's first viewers' choice awards of great prestige and the most awaited acclaim amongst industry experts, the Sansui Colors Stardust Awards will commemorate actors, producers, musicians, technicians and the new talent within the industry for showcasing extraordinary performances and for their contribution towards making 2015 a celebrated year for Indian cinema. The categories will run across genres including action, drama, romance, comedy and above and beyond the conventional to recognize some exceptional work.
Talking about the association with Stardust, Amitabh Tiwari, COO, Sansui, said, “At Sansui it is our goal to make entertainment synonymous with the brand, and through our continued association with Stardust and Colors, we feel more connected to this vision. Last year Stardust Awards was rated as the best award show and this year we are all geared up to raise the bar of entertainment to the next level. We aim to bestow upon our audience the best of entertainment and are all set to enthral them. We have had a wonderful kick start with Stardust and are confident that the relationship will strengthen with each passing year.”
Speaking about the awards, Nari Hira, Chairman, Magna Publishing, said, “If last year's scale and grandeur was top-notch, we are all set to surpass all benchmarks and make this new edition an even bigger entertainment extravaganza. 2015 has been an outstanding year for Indian cinema and we are looking forward to paying homage to the stalwarts whose showmanship has added to the industry's success not only in India but also internationally.”